ChatGPT Mac app reported to have severe memory leak causing system crashes
green-gray · reddit · 2026-08-31
Users are reporting a critical memory leak in the ChatGPT Mac desktop app. The Codex processes in the background are observed consuming increasing amounts of system RAM until the computer crashes. Archiving active threads and restarting is currently the only workaround, though it often leads to lost work.
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